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Forum: Sporting Events 12-01-2007, 12:17 PM
Replies: 90
Views: 11,917
Posted By sandycove
Re: Who is the worst GM is pro sports history?

Here's a pair of modern beauties:

The Royals' Herk Robinson and Allard Baird
Forum: Sporting Events 11-24-2007, 09:08 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 3,942
Posted By sandycove
Re: TheKansas Jayhawks are a win away from bein the #1 team in the cou

Well, I know how to put it:

I was in the stands at Allen Field House 3 December 1956 when Wilt lit it up for 52 points against Northwestern (87-69) in his first varsity game.

I was in the...
Forum: Sporting Events 11-23-2007, 01:52 PM
Replies: 164
Views: 3,381
Posted By sandycove
Re: Official Mizzou VS KU football thread

It’s live, on NASN (North American Sports Network), a subscription outfit based in Scotland, via Sky dish (UK), in Ireland, at 1 AM Sunday. Repeated at 2 PM here Sunday.

As are both my schools at...
Forum: Sporting Events 11-17-2007, 07:02 AM
Replies: 184
Views: 1,916
Posted By sandycove
Re: Why I Hate Missouri -- You Should Too

Well, isn’t this special. And here I believed I was one the few left on the planet who had a memory for and a modest investment in these silly affairs.

A note on the Bert Coan hullabaloo: The...
Forum: Sporting Events 11-16-2007, 10:34 AM
Replies: 184
Views: 1,916
Posted By sandycove
Re: Why I Hate Missouri -- You Should Too

I’ll chime in here with my KU-MU perspective as, like suzzer, a Kansas City ex-pat, and a Kansas alum whose family have been Jayhawks since a long-ago grand-relative drove herself alone in a...
Forum: Software 10-14-2007, 12:02 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 106
Posted By sandycove
Party: Required file missing?

I keep getting this message:

Required file missing. Install again.

I've uninstalled, installed, cleaned up, the lot. I can play, although I can't chat, oddly. And I don't have this problem...
Forum: Internet Gambling 10-14-2007, 12:00 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 88
Posted By sandycove
Party: Required file missing?

I keep getting this message:

Required file missing. Install again.

I've uninstalled, installed, cleaned up, the lot. I can play, although I can't chat, oddly. And I don't have this problem...
Forum: Internet Gambling 09-25-2007, 03:17 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 154
Posted By sandycove
Re: Why does my Party client restart every time I close it???

1. Me, too. Every time.

2. And, for a longer time, almost always, in an MTT, the lobby I keep on screen disappears periodically, for no logical reason. Then, when I click the lobby bar on my...
Forum: Books and Publications 08-23-2007, 10:16 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 231
Posted By sandycove
Re: math.. of poker,how to use it?

I know there are enthusiasts here who have an insufficient mathematics background to cope with MOP fully, but who are willing to do the work to get there.

Is there an appropriate omnibus...
Forum: Sporting Events 08-20-2007, 07:28 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 445
Posted By sandycove
Re: What\'s the closest you\'ve seen to a no-hitter LIVE.

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Making Haddix's effort even more remarkable is the fact that the Braves hitters knew what was coming. In 1993‚ Bob Buhl admitted that the Braves bullpen pitchers were stealing the signs...
Forum: Sporting Events 08-19-2007, 10:04 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 445
Posted By sandycove
Re: What\'s the closest you\'ve seen to a no-hitter LIVE.

I had a brief summer job at the New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows in 1964. Shea Stadium had just opened; the path to the fair passed the ballpark. I would occasionally crash on the...
Forum: Probability 08-18-2007, 12:16 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 107
Posted By sandycove
AK: Pair by the river?

So I know that with AK, the odds of one pair on the flop are 2.1:1 (32.4%).

And, having missed the flop, my odds of pairing one hole card are 3.2:1 (24%).

But what are my preflop odds of...
Forum: Golf 08-12-2007, 06:01 AM
Replies: 444
Views: 6,338
Posted By sandycove
Re: Carnoustie

Excellent article on the player/caddy relationship at that level and a closer reading argues that Mr Romero is solely responsible, both in his choice of club AND caddy, who is his brother, and likely...
Forum: Golf 08-01-2007, 08:25 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 426
Posted By sandycove
Re: Your favorite PGA tour swing?

Bit modest...

Lindy Miller is hardly just some club pro...

On two NCAA championship teams at Oklahoma State
A Walker Cupper
Played in (11) USGA championships
Forum: Tournament Circuit/WSOP 07-30-2007, 09:05 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 398
Posted By sandycove
Re: Wsop Europe schedule

Nic...

Without fanfare, the iPoker skin I frequent stopped offering WSOP Europe qualifiers around 28 July. On 30 July, support answered a query that these were being replaced by (a modest number...
Forum: Sporting Events 07-18-2007, 07:05 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 618
Posted By sandycove
Re: Best use of talent in sports history

Under Burrito rules, it must be:

British Rower Sir Steve Redgrave.

Possibly the greatest Olympic athlete ever, regardless of sport. Five (!) successive Olympic gold medals. And a Bronze.
...
Forum: Sporting Events 07-15-2007, 07:28 AM
Replies: 173
Views: 1,828
Posted By sandycove
Forum: Golf 07-13-2007, 02:22 PM
Replies: 146
Views: 956
Posted By sandycove
Re: Biggest Golf Pet Peeve

Hi Evan...

I like (most) Americans just fine. (And most other folks, too.)

I am an American. Kansas City (where I went to school with Tom Watson, a pretty fair golfer you might have head of),...
Forum: Golf 07-13-2007, 05:52 AM
Replies: 146
Views: 956
Posted By sandycove
Re: Biggest Golf Pet Peeve

In defence of starters (having been one) and rangers, their purpose is simply to eliminate conflict, establish order, illuminate local rules and move things along in the most expeditious manner...
Forum: Sporting Events 07-06-2007, 08:04 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 508
Posted By sandycove
Re: NFL HOF for active players

The McNabb/Elway stat comparisons beg reconsideration of Namath vs Hadl (who remains a candidate). Plus the anti-quarterback bias that is developing on the committee as a backlash to quarterback...
Forum: Golf 07-05-2007, 02:42 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 187
Posted By sandycove
Re: Proper tip for a caddie

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The two courses I have caddied at (Augusta National and Sage Valley) both have "change-out" bags to deal with this problem; I think if the players bag weighs more than ~30 lbs the caddy...
Forum: Golf 07-03-2007, 06:37 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 133
Posted By sandycove
Re: Introducing a 4-year old to golf

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Focus on not moving her feet

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Good luck. (Bring hammer and nails.)

I'm trying the old tie-a-weight-to-a-string trick to promote the notion of feeling the club head...
Forum: Golf 06-30-2007, 02:56 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 75
Posted By sandycove
Re: Fairway Woods

Rather than starting a new thread...

I'm just out for the occasional hit-and-giggle these days in sneakers with 7 or 8 sticks.

I'm in the market for a gap 7-ish wood (about 175 yards for me) to...
Forum: Sporting Events 06-28-2007, 11:26 AM
Replies: 822
Views: 5,948
Posted By sandycove
Re: NBA draft disccusion thread

So the consensus is Julian Wright between 10 and 17?

Does he make more money, hypothetically, if he waits a year for a weaker draft? Or would he be nuts to leave, say, top 15 money on the table?...
Forum: Golf 06-28-2007, 06:35 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 96
Posted By sandycove
Re: Replica Holes and Replica Courses

Google "Redan," the most-copied hole in golf -- now the 15th at North Berwick West, dating from 1895.

Best known redan-inspired holes are likely the Charles Macdonald 4th at National and the 7th...
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